Complaints made by parents about ‘selfish’ people parking in parent and child parking spaces at local shops, prompted the Aberdeen Evening Express to visit Safeway’s King Street store to see for themselves the problem which is causing such outcry.
In just 20 minutes, five drivers were seen using the spaces, with extra space for parent convenience, and there was not a child in sight. But the spaces are a courtesy and not a legal requirement like disabled spaces, and people using them without children cannot be reprimanded.

With more than 2,000 signatures on the ‘No Through Route’ campaign, the Bath Chronicle is letting its readers know that there is still time for people to pledge their support.
The petition to ban unnecessary HGV traffic from Bath’s roads is due to be handed over to MP Don Foster later this month.

South Tyneside’s two MPs David Milliband and Stephen Hepburn have given their backing to the Shields Gazette’s Can You Care campaign.He said: “The Can You Care campaign is an excellent idea to raise awareness of the need for foster carers. Foster carers can play a pivotal role in a young person’s life.”

The Plymouth Evening Herald and the Plymouth police launched the ‘Catch a Rat’ campaign last week calling for residents to anonymously identify local drug dealers.
Margaret Hyde, whose son was killed by a drug overdose, has pledged her support to the campaign trying to catch the drug dealers that killed her son.

Three years of fundraising launched by the Yarmouth Mercury has paid off this week when a Norfolk hospital opened its new £1.2m intensive care unit.
Hospital staff sent out a big “thank you” to the public who helped raise more than £550,000 to pay for equipment for the unit at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston.

A supporter of the Wiltshire Gazette’s campaign to save the Devizes Maternity Unit from closure has given birth to her eighth child.
Tracy Griffiths, (32), was one of the 500 people to take part in a protest march though Devizes in February, when the petition was handed over to the Kennet and North Wiltshire Primary Care Trust.

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